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Best Of FORBES: Frigid Weather, Futuristic Rifles And Bitcoins

Feeling the cold today? FORBES touches on the news you need to know about the frigid temperatures outside:

“There’s no question that the problems for the airlines in the last few days have been extreme. With JetBlue, American, Delta and most of the major airlines reporting large numbers of cancellations and delays, the scenes at many airports have been described as chaotic. More than 4,100 cancellations and almost 8,000 delays were reported in the US yesterday, according to FlightAware.com” — John Goglia. Read Why Extreme Cold Is Causing Extreme Problems For The Airlines

“It’s usually in the Dog Days of summer when the air conditioners are roaring that Texas worries about outstripping its power grid. But on Monday morning, with temperatures plunging to 10 degrees in Fort Worth, Texans’ power consumption soared” — Christopher Helman. Read Frigid Temps Threaten Blackouts On Texas Power Grid

“A polar vortex has descended upon the continental U.S. this week, bringing with it arctic-like gusts and record low temperatures that have many Americans cranking the thermostat as high as it can go. Yet despite a new report that shows how frigid weather can push natural gas prices higher, futures of the commodity were fluctuating Tuesday afternoon in anticipation of a thaw later in the week” — Maggie McGrath. Read Freezing Temperatures Raise Natural Gas Prices But Markets Are Eyeing A Thaw

And in other news:

“Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme was the biggest investment scam in history so the numbers associated with it are always huge. Nearly three years ago the scandal produced the largest single forfeiture recovery in U.S. history, when Barbara Picower agreed to pay $7.2 billion. Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced that JPMorgan Chase, where Madoff kept the bank account at the center of his fraud, would settle criminal charges and pay $1.7 billion in the largest bank forfeiture in history” — Nathan Vardi. Read JPMorgan Chase To Pay $1.7 Billion In Largest Bank Forfeiture In History, Settles Criminal Madoff Charges

“Four years after the creation of Bitcoin, the value of the digital cryptocurrency surpassed $1,100, thanks in large part to interest from China. Bobby Lee’s BTC China met the demand and became the world’s biggest Bitcoin exchange. Then Beijing dropped the boom” — Kashmir Hill. Read China Bites Into Bitcoin

“Cvent founder Reggie Aggarwal almost lost his event platform to bad luck and overspending. Here’s how he clawed his way past $1 billion” — Karsten Strauss. Read From Death’s Door To $1.5B: Cvent

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